When there’s a statue of your dad on Capitol Hill, it’s probably inevitable that you think about things like history and legacy and preservation, so Rosanne Cash was particularly moved when one of her albums was inducted into the National Recording Registry a few days ago. The singer-songwriter daughter of Johnny Cash — the musician and cultural icon — has herself been a steady figure in Americana, country and crossover music for half a century. “The Wheel,” a 1993 album about a chaotic period in her life, is now on the registry — just like her father’s “At Folsom Prison,” which he recorded when she was just 12. In the Library’s collection of some 4 million recordings across all genres, including news, sports and other broadcasts, they are the only father and daughter duo on the registry. This year’s NRR selections, which also included music from Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Ray Charles, now preserves 700 recordings from the nation’s aural history. The decades roll by; Cash is 70 now. She has more than a dozen studio albums, several Grammys, a memoir and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame behind her. From this plateau, she can fully appreciate the…
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Rosanne Cash: A family history in the National Recording Registry
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